“Gen. Yakubu Gowon, Military Head of
State and Vice Adm. Joseph Edet Akinwale, Chief of Staff, Supreme
Headquarters.

“I also saw the picture of Gen.
Murtala Ramat Muhammed, the late Military Head of State, Gen.
Olusegun Obasanjo and Maj.-Gen. Shehu Musa Yar’Adua, the Chief of
Staff, Supreme Headquarters then.

“Alhaji Shehu Shagari, former
President and his vice, Dr Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekweme; Maj.-Gen.
Muhammadu Buhari as former Military Head of State and the late Brig.
Babatunde Idiagbon, the then Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters.

“I also saw the pictures of Gen.
Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida as the Military President, Cdr Ebitu
Ukiwe, the Chief of General Staff and that of Admiral Augustus
Aikhomu, Chief of General Staff.

“I saw Chief Ernest Shonekan picture,
the Head of Interim National Government, late Gen. Sani Abacha’s
picture as the military Head of State and Lt. Gen. Oladipo Diya, then
Chief of General Staff.

“ I think with all I saw in the
museum, I believe the stories more now,” he said.

Also, Miss Glory Ewa, a pupil of New
Generation Baptist School, Lagos, said that she saw the slave chains
used during slave trade era.

“We were told about the story of
slave trade in school, and now I have seen the chains used on them,
it is so big! I feel like shedding tears,” Ewa said.

Narrating her experience, Miss Fazzilet
Siyaka from Itian Bell Schools, Lagos, told NAN that apart from
schools, parents should also endeavour to bring their children to the
museums.

Siyaka said that this would encourage
pupils to learn more at their own leisure.

“I love all I have seen and I will
tell my mother to bring me here at least every quarter, so that I can
learn more,” she said.

When contacted, Mrs Christine Daniel,
the Coordinator, Itian Bell Schools, said that the school had been
exposing its pupils to the study of slavery, circumcision, past
leaders and more about Nigeria History.

Daniel said that the pupils were at the
museum to learn more and prepare them for the studies of the museum
in secondary school.

“We have taught them a lot about the
History of Nigeria; we brought them here to see all that we have
teaching them in classes to enable them to understand better.

Also, Mr Paul Ikposhi, the coordinator
of pupils from the New Generation Baptist School, said that the
pupils were at the museum to make real everything they had been
taught in school.